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TESTED TRACT BY TRACT — NEGATIVE
A cession can still leave islands; on this ground it left none. The 26 October treaty's second article reserves, tract by tract: to Aub-be-naub-bee, thirty-six sections at his village — the Twin Lakes country of Marshall County; to Men-o-mi-nee, No-taw-kah, Muck-kah-tah-mo-way, and Pee-pin-oh-waw, twenty-two sections; to O-kaw-wause, Kee-waw-nay, and Nee-bosh, eight; one section to J. B. Shadernah in Door Prairie, La Porte County; two to Com-o-za; two to Mah-che-saw; six to Mau-ke-kose — the treaty places his in Township 32 North, Range 2 East; and three to Nees-waugh-gee and Quash-qua. Royce maps them as reserve tracts 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, and 42, every one of them in the Tippecanoe and Wabash country, miles south and east of this township, and their extinguishment course is a matter of the same record: Com-o-za's reserve ceded 4 December 1834, Mau-ke-kose's 10 December 1834, Aub-ba-naub-bee's 11 April 1836. The 27 October treaty's second article reserves Pokagon's village, the Nottawasepee residents' ground, four sections to Kin-Kash, two sections for the Potawatomi mills on the Tippecanoe, and four to Be-si-ah — Michigan and Tippecanoe seats, and its third article's grants to Poch-a-gan and his wife locate at his village. No reserve in either instrument lay in or near Lincoln Township, and no individual grant floated free to land here: the township passed entire, with no section held back — which is why its settlement, when it came in 1835, met no reserved village in its way, only the people themselves, still hunting the marsh. The 22-section Menominee reserve at Twin Lakes, one county south, is the nearest reserved ground, and its 1836 sale and 1838 removal belong to Marshall County's record, at the boundary size the removal article gives them.